Taiheizan Ski Area Opus is a ski area in Akita, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 137–320 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.2 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 7 marked runs and 3 lifts, totalling about 5.5 km of piste. There is no settled snow at the moment — the season has not started here yet. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 248 cm of snowfall a season, 769th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 2 official live cameras are linked below. 34 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌤️ 27 Sept | 0 | 16.8 / 22.2 | 8.6 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 16.3 / 21.8 | 8.7 |
| 🌤️ 29 Sept | 0 | 14.9 / 19 | 8.8 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 12.5 / 20.5 | 8.8 |
| 🌧️ 1 Oct | 0 | 12.9 / 18.6 | 17.9 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 11.9 / 16 | 25.2 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 9.3 / 15.9 | 15.1 |
Runs and lifts
Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
Only 6% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift3
See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗
Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.
Live Cameras
Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.
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How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
The tick marks the median across the 395 Japanese ski areas. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.
The quality score deliberately excludes how much snow falls — it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind. Snowing a lot and snowing well are different things.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kyowa Snow Park | 19 km | 243 cm | 802 |
| Matsumori Ski Area | 23 km | 386 cm | 196 |
| Ani Yuguchinai Ski Area | 29 km | 339 cm | 336 |
| Ani Ski Resort (Mt. Moriyoshi) | 31 km | 423 cm | 140 |
| Omagari Family Ski Area | 42 km | 265 cm | 643 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 36% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 27 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
1 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first.
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 仁別沢ザブーン温泉プール | 1 km | — | — | — | — |
These are analyses of hot spring sources, not a list of baths you can visit. They date from 1910 to 2005, many from decades ago, so today’s temperature and chemistry may differ. Names are as recorded in Japanese. Temperature and pH bands follow Japan’s standard for analysing hot springs.
Source: processed from the hot spring analysis data in the Geothermal Information Database (GRES-DB), Geological Survey of Japan, AIST
Worth seeing nearby
Places within 20 km of this ski area, for a day off the slopes or an evening. Chosen from those most read about on Wikipedia, favouring places with an English Wikipedia article, and listed nearest first.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Tentoku-ji Temple天徳寺 (秋田市) | Temple | 10.9 km |
| Kubota Castle久保田城 | Historic site | 11.6 km |
| Akita Station秋田駅 | Landmark | 11.7 km |
| Akita Museum of Art秋田県立美術館 平野政吉コレクション | Museum | 12.2 km |
| Akita Kantō竿燈 | Old streets | 12.6 km |
| Akita Castle秋田城 | Historic site | 13.9 km |
Based on the Japanese Wikipedia lists of sights in each prefecture, as compiled in travel-log-data (CC BY-SA 4.0). English names from Wikidata (CC0). The content of this section is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗Places to stay nearby
1 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 貝の沢温泉 | ¥7,300 | 4.50 13 reviews | 7.9 km | 秋田駅東口より車で約2０分・西口より約30分 |
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Stay nearby
21 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 9.3 km
Nearest first
- 旅館鯉くらぶ Guest house 10.6 km
- 旅館 白鳥荘 Hotel 11.6 km
- Toyoko Inn Hotel 11.7 km
- Ebisuya Ryokan Hotel 11.7 km
- Hotel Metropolitan Akita Hotel 11.7 km
- ANA CROWNE PLAZA AKITA Hotel 11.9 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28